In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife without commitment is not worth living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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